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NGC2221
Basic Information
Location and Magnitude
Right Ascension: 6:20:15.8
Declination: -57:34:43
Constellation: PIC
Visual Magnitude: 13.2
Historic Information
Discoverer: Herschel J.
Year of discovery: 1834
Discovery aperture: 18.3
Observational
Summary description: vF, lE, vgbM, p of 2
Sub-type: Sa
Steve's Notes
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NGC 2221
24" (4/10/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): this is the brightest member of a trio of elongated galaxies (KTS 33). At 260x it appeared fairly bright, large, edge-on 4:1 N-S, ~1.5'x0.35', broad concentration, dims at the tips. Just at the north tip is an extremely faint star or a knot (appears to be an HII knot on the Vickers CCD image). Forms a striking pair with NGC 2222 2.7' N. The third member, ESO 161-001 is much fainter and lies 5.3' NNE. A 26" pair of mag 11.5/12 stars 4.5' NW is collinear with this galaxy and a mag 10.9 star lies to the NW of the trio.